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How to get Republicans angry at another Republican

 
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Hater Depot



Joined: 29 Mar 2005
PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:50 pm    Post subject: How to get Republicans angry at another Republican Reply with quote
Many Republicans are angry at Bush. Why?

His ballooning of the federal budget and deficit? Despite being a continuing 5-year fiasco, no.
His massive expansion of the welfare state? No, despite lying repeatedly about its true cost.
Staining the honor of the US military by allowing torture? No.
Screwing the pooch on a once-in-a-century magnitude natural disaster in a major American city? No.

Oh, he made the wrong Supreme Court nomination. Lying to the American people, sending our reputation into the toilet, fiddling while citizens died.... no big deal. Betraying conservative principles, spending like a drunken sailor at Score's and passing the costs on to our children and grandchildren.... hey, stuff happens. But not doing everything possible to get Roe v. Wade overturned? To the ramparts!
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 6:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Excellent point. Excellent post.
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004
PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:00 pm    Post subject: There's more than one way... Reply with quote
There's more than one way!

Remember Grover Norquist? That abominable little small government fanatic who doesn't want to get rid of the government, but only wants to make it small enough to strangle in his bathtub?

Well, seems he made a cardinal GOP sin!

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So, what did Norquist do to disgust conservative activists? He agreed to meet with a group of Republicans in Texas — who happen to be gay.

A number of conservatives are seething over the fact that Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), was the featured speaker at a fund-raising event for a group of homosexual Republicans last weekend. One pro-family leader called Norquist's appearance "an act of utter betrayal."
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Hater Depot



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I saw that. I was going to link to it but then I thought it could be too much dumbassery for one post.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I thought it could be too much dumbassery for one post


You must have forgotten what group we are talking about here.
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desultude



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
The average Republican in a position of leadership cares f'all about life- that of a fetus, a soldier, or a woman in a vegetative state. They care about the votes ahd money from people committed to such issues.

They have to tend to "the base"- rabidly conservative, ultra-orthodox right to (unborn)-life pro-gun voters (who never seem to experience a moment of cognitive dissonance over these positions).

Not that most Democrats aren't sluts themselves, but they at least have to sell themselves out to some degree to a more rational constituency, in addition to the usual special interests that have bought out both parties.

I have a bit of a theory, by the way, about Miers (sp). I think she is a sacrificial lamb put out there to make every other dumb ass appointment made by this band of theives look actually good by comparison. That is all that can explain away the way his appointment of the man who has advised Bush as he led the U.S. economy into the trash heap has been so positively received by seemingly everyone. I feel sorry for her- surely no one but Bush himself could have expected her to be confirmed.

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Pligganease



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ya-ta Boy wrote:
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I thought it could be too much dumbassery for one post


You must have forgotten what group we are talking about here.


Indeed.
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Pligganease



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
desultude wrote:
The average Republican in a position of leadership cares f'all about life- that of a fetus, a soldier, or a woman in a vegetative state. They care about the votes ahd money from people committed to such issues.

They have to tend to "the base"- rabidly conservative, ultra-orthodox right to (unborn)-life pro-gun voters (who never seem to experience a moment of cognitive dissonance over these positions).

Not that most Democrats aren't sluts themselves, but they at least have to sell themselves out to some degree to a more rational constituency, in addition to the usual special interests that have bought out both parties.


Absolutely correct. Republicans keep their voting block afraid and Democrats keep their voting block dependent.
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desultude



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pligganease wrote:
desultude wrote:
The average Republican in a position of leadership cares f'all about life- that of a fetus, a soldier, or a woman in a vegetative state. They care about the votes ahd money from people committed to such issues.

They have to tend to "the base"- rabidly conservative, ultra-orthodox right to (unborn)-life pro-gun voters (who never seem to experience a moment of cognitive dissonance over these positions).

Not that most Democrats aren't sluts themselves, but they at least have to sell themselves out to some degree to a more rational constituency, in addition to the usual special interests that have bought out both parties.


Absolutely correct. Republicans keep their voting block afraid and Democrats keep their voting block dependent.


Well, not quite right. The Democrats are the only thing those of us who have left the cave for more than five minutes in our lives have. Look at the demographics. The poor don't vote. The minorities largely don't vote. The Democrats get the votes of the educated and urban classes- wealthy, poor or otherwise.

Those you might deem "dependent"- the poor, etc., just don't vote enough to make it worth either party's time and resources to pander to.

The Dems do have to pander to the moneyed interest groups, and if the Republicans manage to overturn the law that provides some minimal funding for presidential elections, they will be even more beholding, if that is possible.
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